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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 11:00 PM Original message |
Ex-US football player faces caning in Singapore |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 11:04 PM Response to Original message |
1. Gee this really is like 1994 again |
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burning rain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 02:10 AM Response to Reply #1 |
10. I remember Michael Fay. |
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derby378 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 11:06 PM Response to Original message |
2. This is surreal... |
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Downwinder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 11:13 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Same thing we do. Arrest people going back to Mexico. |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 05:21 AM Response to Reply #4 |
23. a mega-million-dollar boondoggle that fattens the Border Patrol's budget and enriches private corps |
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Mad_Dem_X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 07:04 AM Response to Reply #2 |
28. Caning seems pretty extreme for what he did. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 11:09 PM Response to Original message |
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Tunkamerica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 12:26 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. I think you mean c'est pool. or c'est piscine. |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 02:32 AM Response to Reply #3 |
12. Have you been to Singapore? I have several times and it is anything but a cesspool |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 05:16 AM Response to Reply #12 |
22. The Lee government confiscated the entire $400,000 budget of the Democratic Party |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 05:26 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. I didn't know about that little nugget of history |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 06:01 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. I read it a year or so ago when I was perusing Singaporean news and blogs |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 10:12 AM Response to Reply #25 |
31. That's really ironic |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 10:14 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Citizens can be arrested for standing on a sidewalk holding placards |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 10:28 AM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Singapore's Constitution: Freedom of Speech, Assembly and Association |
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The Northerner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 11:45 PM Response to Original message |
5. Really? I just can't believe the Singaporean gov't would cane someone over something like this. |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 12:26 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Singapore is a heavy-handed authoritarian state |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 02:39 AM Response to Reply #6 |
13. The people of Singapore are generally very proud of where they live and happy with their lifestyle |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 03:01 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Cattle are happy with the feedlot, too |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 03:13 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Have you been to Singapore? BTW Singaporeans are humans, not animals. |
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rpannier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 04:02 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Yes, I've been to Singapore and it is a heavy handed authoritarian state |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 04:37 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. They have a lot of strict laws there but that hasn't turned it into a miserable place |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 07:00 AM Response to Reply #15 |
27. It's called "analogy" |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 10:05 AM Response to Reply #27 |
30. You can only tell if people are happy when you visit/experience where they live |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 10:54 PM Response to Reply #30 |
35. I never said they weren't happy |
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DeltaLitProf (459 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 04:14 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Spoken like Big Brother himself. |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 04:39 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. You don't know me, I don't know you |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 05:09 AM Response to Reply #6 |
21. By the way, they were "globalized" long before that phrase became commonly used |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 12:31 AM Response to Reply #5 |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 02:28 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. You're expressing a wish for the ethnic cleansing of Singapore by Tsunami? |
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Eryemil (958 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 06:19 AM Response to Reply #5 |
26. Singapore is a backwards, authoritarian pit when it comes to human rights |
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RZM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 01:40 AM Response to Original message |
9. Michael Fay was mildly amusing and guess this is too |
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herbm (980 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 04:48 AM Response to Original message |
20. The punishment doesn't bother me as much as the fact he was arrested leaving. |
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hughee99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 12:29 PM Response to Reply #20 |
34. That was my first thought as well... |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-22-10 07:08 AM Response to Original message |
29. so does the wife get the cane as well? |
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